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The Discontinuity of Human Existence: Part I. The Fundamental Concepts of Human Existence and the Relation between the Singular and the Super Singular

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The Discontinuity of Human Existence: Part I. The Fundamental Concepts of Human Existence and the Relation between the Singular and the Super Singular

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Ole Elstrup Rasmussen

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entrepreneurship, discontinuity, dialectic logic, existence, global perspective
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studiesinconsciousness; additional_collections
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English
The objective of this and the two forthcoming articles is to describe the fundamental discontinuities of human existence. The reason for starting with entrepreneurship is twofold. The entrepreneurial sciences represent a tradition the subject matter of which is change, and the relation between the singular and the super singular constitutes a problem which has frustrated the cognition of human activity. The analysis of some classic theories of entrepreneurship shows that - given a sufficient level of generalisation - a small number of concepts is sufficient to model entrepreneurship within economics. The analysis, however, shows that economics alone cannot describe entrepreneurship. Psychology must be included. But it also reveals that current psychological research is unable to solve the problems of entrepreneurship. Finally, the analysis finds that an un-clarified relation between the super singular and the singular constitutes an obstacle for the modelling of entrepreneurship. To remove this obstacle some classic theories are analysed. Concurrently, it is the objective of the analysis to consider whether a set of fundamental concepts of human existence appears across the theories. The conclusion of the analysis is that the classic theories cannot solve the pro­blems rising from the relation between the singular and the super singular, although these theories, to some extent, have produced the means to do so. It is shown that the analytic and the dialectic logic, being the matrices of the analysed theories, are able to explain the forms of existence that are under control, but the underlying stream of uncontrolled and uncontrollable social processes are not conceived as anything but prerequisites of the control processes. Consequently, the analysis suggests that it is necessary to disengage the funda­mental forms of development from their present theoretical bindings. If the problem of the relation between the singular and the super singular is to be solved, the dialectic as well as the analytic logic, has to be neutralised. It is also suggested that the modern complexity theories could be the means of obtaining a more profound understanding of the uncontrolled human existence. Further, it is shown that the analysed theories have a few fundamental concepts of human existence in common: canalisation, encompassing transference of something from one to another, correlation, encompassing reciprocity which forms the basis of generalisation and combination, encompassing the production of the new. The theories also point to self-reference, although this concept does not have a completely transparent status in all the theories. And finally the theories bring to attention the fact that it is necessary to determine whether human existence is to be viewed in a local or global perspective.
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